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Summer’s Almost Over

Summer’s Almost Over

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Who am I kidding….. Or maybe…it’s just wishful thinking….. My Aunt Cory (up in northeastern Ohio) said that some of the tree leaves are actually starting to change to yellows and golds….. And some of her nights are actually in the sixties…(sigh)………….(double sigh)….. I miss a real Autumn down here….. We just get Hot…then Hotter…then…less Hot…and that’s about it….. …..and the leaves here….. …..they are green….. Then they’re darker green…then they wither…and turn…

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***Digital Thermometers***

***Digital Thermometers***

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* The entire State of Florida is under a Heat Advisory….. All the community swimming pools have been opened up…and no fees or admission charges are being collected….. My previous post was about our extreme struggles with trying to keep our Clydesdale mare’s temperatures down to a healthy level….. *****(What’s Too Hot For A Horse?)***** The link that I’ve listed above helps to illustrate what’s healthy and what’s not with regards to a horse’s…

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Excessive Heat & Horses

Excessive Heat & Horses

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* …..Hoo Baby!  It’s Hot!….. The forecasted temperature for the last few days has been 96F!…and that’s not even taking into account that mysterious “Feels Like” temperature…the one that’s SO much hotter…the one that all the meteorologists like to threaten…. I worry about the animals….. I worry about the animals who are outdoors….. I worry about the horses….. I just worry….. …..a lot….. Where Acts of God are concerned…that’s about all I can do…so…

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The Summer Rains

The Summer Rains

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* It’s true….. The regular afternoon thunder boomers have finally begun….. These are separate from the potential of impending tropical storms….. These afternoon lightening extravaganzas have more to do with the daily Gulf water evaporation….. …..and the on shore/or off shore breezes…which move around as the day heats up…or cools down….. As a result…we usually get afternoon lightening storms that you can set your watch by….. With the summertime heat…the regular storms help to…

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Desert Dust…or…Hurricane

Desert Dust…or…Hurricane

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* So…we get desert dust blowing over us…OR…we get an atmosphere that’s prone for a hurricane….. Hmmmmm…decisions…decisions….. Of course…none of this is up to me….. But once again…here goes my best attempt at being an amateur aging meteorologist….. We’re deep into July…and there’s perhaps only the first sign of any tropical weather developments….. We didn’t have ANY named storms in June….. And so far…there have been no tropical named anything….. That predicted Super-Dee-Dooper El…

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Air Conditioning #101

Air Conditioning #101

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Well…we’re in the deep depths of a Florida summer….. Using the word…”sweltering” doesn’t really do it justice….. Intolerable…blazing…swollen…squishy…searing…scorching…sluiced…bacterial…waterlogged…decomposing….. Oh………….and molding….. It’s so easy to crawl into anything that has a motorized artificial environment…(i.e. air-conditioning)…and hibernate until the weather breaks….. …..sometime in November….. We hope for daily rains…which don’t always happen….. When they don’t….. …..the temperatures easily climb well into the ninety’s…(and that’s even before the “feels like” temperatures…which are well into the hundred’s)……..

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I Love The Smell Of Kopertox In The Morning

I Love The Smell Of Kopertox In The Morning

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* ~~~Summer is Here~~~ We seem to be in the middle of changing from a record drought…to the extreme heat of summer and its accompanying deluges….. The humidity is cranking up…the armpit algae is back again in full force…it’s the season of mold & fungus….. As the turgid smothering humidity takes effect…the familiar summer smells of citronella and Kopertox and sweat take center stage….. Ah…Summer….. With the changing weather from bone dry to soppy…

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The Sizzle Is Arriving

The Sizzle Is Arriving

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* We are looking down the barrel of the steaming sizzling hot glowing heat of this coming Summer months….. …..oh goodie….. Since living in Florida (from the early 1970’s) I’ve learned to dread its Summers….. They’re tough….. Even though the summer coincides with the rainy season…it’s still super Hot…and the rains just add to the steam….. …..(I’ve always wondered why we don’t call the rainy season here…a monsoon season?)….. …..the steaming roads…the steaming condensation…

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Mosquitoes When It’s Wet…Flies When It’s Dry

Mosquitoes When It’s Wet…Flies When It’s Dry

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Well…that’s the story here right now….. Here in our little Swamp…it’s normally wet…very wet…squishy & soggy wet….. …..and we have more than the average share of mosquitoes….. But when it’s such a huge drought…(like what we’re in the middle of right now)….. …..we have flies….. …..nasty biting flies….. There are big flies…little flies…black flies…yellow flies…and flies with neon colored swiveling eyes….. *****(Biting Flies–And What To Expect)***** And they all bite….. It’s because everything…

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Houses For Pigs

Houses For Pigs

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* We’re coming up to some really hot weather in the next few weeks….. Most of our pigs have their own shaded areas…where they can repose out of the sun…literally with palm fond fans….. But recently all of the dead trees have been taken down…and it’s looking extra sunny out there….. My older daughter and I are doing research on what vegetation can take the place of the old removed trees….. …..and offer both…

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